Easy Street Round Up

Well Christmas and New Year have come and gone. I hope everyone had a good holiday break and found some time to relax. 

I haven't really done any more on my Easy Street, but I'm kind of glad as that means I haven't done step 7 which was making the setting triangles, so Easy Street could be put on point. I have decided I want mine straight set.  

Here's some of my pieces set out, ( I still haven't cut out my purple centre squares )

Anyway as I'm not going to do any more at the moment (It's too hot to sew!) It's 28 degrees celsius in my dining room :-( 

I thought I would use my EQ7 to draw up what the quilt will look like as a 'Straight Set'

If you would like to see a whole lot more Easy Street Quilts use this link to go to Bonnie's blog Linky.

Easy Street Part 4

Well this afternoon I started on clue 4 of Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street Mystery Quilt.
I thought I better as clue 5 with be published tonight.

I still have a few units to go (I'm only making half the units, for a smaller quilt). But at least I made a start.
I cut these out, and sewed them this afternoon while watching Bonnie live on Quilt Cam.

Now I better scoot and link this up to Bonnie's blog before the next clue is released! Go and have a look at all the other 'crazy' bloggers doing Easy Street too. I think I might be the last to link up this week ;-)

Busy, busy, busy and fun too!

First off I have had a very BUSY week. I know I haven't posted last weekends Show n Tell from Club, but I will soon. I decided to do this quick post first.

Since the Club meeting last Saturday, I have gone to a Fire Brigade Honours Night, School Prize Giving, School Leavers Dinner, Secret Santa work party, and Ten Pin Bowling with my works social club.

Quilting wise I have finished the Red/White quilt top I have been working on, and cut and sewn Clue 3 of Easy Street this morning.

The Red/White top is finished!

Here's a quick photo of the Red/White top, Oscar was not around to model it for me and see I didn't even unfold that corner, remember this is supposed to be a quick Post!

Yes I still need to trim the corners!

Shhh.... don't tell Brad I have posted this picture of him! They looked so cute together before they went out the other night I just had to share :-)

Youngest son and his Girlfriend 

Finally started Clue 3 of Easy Street this morning (just in time before Clue 4 will be released)

Oh there you are Oscar. He's not really interested in this Easy Street Quilt. He opened an eye to see what I was putting on his back and then went back to sleep!

You can see other peoples East Street blog posts on a 'Linky' on Bonnie's blog. My post is number 238!

Easy Street Progress

I'm doing Bonnie Hunter's (Quiltville) new mystery Easy Street. I have decided to make only half the units, as I'm not sure if I have enough of the right colours in the stash.

I also just converted the size Bonnie said the quilt will finish into centimetres.
If I was making all the units, this quilt without borders would measure 213cm square, with borders 260cm square! That is one big quilt, so I'm glad I'm only doing half the units!

So here is the progress I have made so far, the first two clues done. If you want to see some of the others doing the Mystery, Bonnie has a 'Linky' of other bloggers here for you to have a look. The first 'Linky' had 239 blogs link up! I wonder if there will be that many this time.

This are the flying geese units & rectangles from clue 2

Four patches, these were clue 1

I have also been working on sewing together the units of the Red/White quilt I started at the Quilt retreat last weekend. Don't they match my Bernina nicely ;-)

Red/White blocks

Just finished reading Jennifer Chiaverini's latest 'Elm Creek' novel, 'The Giving Quilt'. I was pleased there wasn't too much repeating of the info from the previous books in this one. A few new characters are introduced and it will be nice to see them in future books. This book was a bit different too, as there was some of the 'unpleasant' aspects of quilting written into the storyline. 

Lucky, Easy Street

A couple of weeks ago I went shopping with Hubby. Outside a shop was a Sausage Sizzle & Raffle. Hubby got a Sausage, and I got a raffle ticket.

Nothing special there, but then my Hubby teased me as he had "got something for his money" and I hadn't. Raffles in his mind are a waste of time.

So you can imagine my joy this week when I was rung to say I had won a basket full of groceries! He’s not going to live down teasing me for a long time!

Grocery Basket

OK now to make this post a bit Quilty. I'm thinking about doing Bonnie Hunter’s new Mystery ‘Easy Street’ so have been pulling fabrics from my stash. I've not got too many of the colours needed so I might just make half the units, and see how things go. 

Easy Street Fabrics